Familiar Faces

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DFF: See a new chap the fastest I've ever updated. TEE HEE!

DIF: I know it's a miracle just for me to update and I'm the organized one.

Randa: Yes, we know it hurts you so. I just share brain space with you guys. Why I do, is beyond me.

DIF: Are you saying you don't love us? We're older than you so we shut you up in your head.

DFF: Don't you get the fact that she calls us her Split personality is just another way of saying we're her imaginary friends.

Randa: You guys are my split personality… Where did you get the imaginary friend bit? The last imaginary friend I had ended up being sold with the first house we bought in Colorado.

DFF: I didn't know you sold your friends. look of confusion Your going to sell us. High screechy voice people get when they're upset

Randa: It's kinda hard to sell your personality. Rolls eyes And I thought you were a guy Fire.

DIF: I think he picked up a few characteristics of the female from us.

Randa: eyebrows raised I don't have that characteristic. Now, enough of this melodrama, go on to the story.

Editor: Hah I finished editing this in time!

"Hige?" her voice was so quiet it was incoherent to a human and only a small whisper to him, but it was pleading as if to make it real. In that moment they silently confirmed that the other was who they thought it was.

"Yeah runt it's me." Hige replied with his goofy grin still in place, not seeing her distress because it was covered quickly by a cheery façade.

"Fallow me," she said and started walking towards the door.

"Wait, Toboe." She turned and looked at him with her head cocked to the side slightly.

"What?" She asked.

He came and stood next to her then asked, "So you know where to go to find this sergeant?"

Right after Hige asked that Toboe's cheery façade fell and the cold impassiveness below shown through completely. "Hige, if you started using your ears as well as your nose, you would know that I'm the sergeant you were assigned to. So you can either come with me now and have someone you know, still remotely the same, and a warm bed or sleep in the streets, find 'Flower Kitten' in the morning and deal with a pissed off cat because you messed up the plans." Her voice was as cold as dry ice and she was looking away but when she faced him he was burned even more by the iciness of her glare. (1) Toboe then turned and walked out.

"Toboe I'm sorry. I just never saw you as the leading type, and it worries me that you've been passing yourself off as a human bitch." he said catching up to her but staying behind her knowing he was a lower rank now. Toboe gave a bitter laugh at this and it worried him immensely.

Toboe kept walking for few blocks back the way Hige came and finally stopped in front of a very large house. There was nothing special about the house; it was just very large like it could spaciously hold at least 30 people. Toboe had her arms around herself and turned to Hige once again but this time her eyes were not cold and distant but sad, lost, and defeated. Her eyes also held tears.

"Hige I have to act that way, if I don't every thing will go down the drain. 13 years of hard work from wolves and other generous creatures all over this city if I get caught. It's just my job so I can keep my house. Then I also have to feed and house 3 AMs, 6 AFs, two females for each horny bastard, 10 Right turners, 8 u turners, 1 FD, 12 BS, and 20 pups. That's 40 wolves, 41 now. I go to work, then go shopping for food, go home give the food to Leera, the FD, kick the AMs back into shape, then go back to work for a while. The only person who even slightly knows why I do this is James and Gear my nextdoor neighbors and the one who saw me when I didn't exist. You saw me too, Hige, 11 years ago when no one else did and looked right at me. So what did you see?" Toboe's tears were so close to spilling over, but she was too well practiced and they did not fall. She looked so broken and he wanted to do something to help but couldn't move.

"You were… well not you. You looked sad and beaten. You looked defeated as if some one had proven a point you didn't want proven." Hige was scared and worried. Try as he may he didn't know why he knew that something horrible had happened to her 11 or so years ago. What he wanted to know was what exactly happened to her that made her able to hold that burning ice glare so easily.

"Yeah, Hige, my master had just proven how worthless I've been. Hige I had one accomplishment to my name last time around and that was the big walrus I took down and I was only able to do that because it was my day of strength. You guys kept me around no matter how much of a burden I became. (2) My master he beat me ever since he bought me from the refinery. Hige no matter how dorky this may sound it's true, and you can't laugh." Toboe's tears had finally overflowed their barriers and were flowing down her cheeks like a flood. At that moment she looked like so many of the girls at the refinery that had lost them-selves to depression, and he could not let that happen to her, she was just too damn close to him.

Hige walked up to her and enveloped her in a comforting embrace. He didn't know what it was but he felt closer to her then last time. It wasn't that he was in love with her, but he did love her; if that made any sense. (3) It reminded him of what his mother said to him before he left the refinery the first time, 'Find your sister and protect her.' which really confused him because his only sister had been right behind his mother. He'd only been 1 at the time and remembered it very faintly. Then when he had been recaptured his mother had asked, 'Did you find her?'

Hige was torn from his thoughts when Toboe finally started speaking again after calming down a bit but her tears still falling down freely. "You guys are like brothers to me, you more so now than ever because you are my brother. Though I had only been 2 months old, I remember what Mom had told me. 'Go find Hige; your bother will protect you.' She had said. So will you be my big brother and protect me from this nightmare that's been haunting me for years?" Toboe had ceased crying but her face was blotchy and red from crying. She was clutching Hige's now wet hoody from her crying. He only had one arm around her now and the other was scratching his head.

"To protect you from it I first must know what it is. So how bout we go to your place and talk about it instead of the cold street." Hige gave her his goofy grin and added, "I would invite you to my crib but I don't have one." And with this comment he got a true smile from her.

She let go of him and slapped his arm lightly and said softly, "Come this way." She walked into the house they had stopped in front of.

1- Dry ice burns.

2- This is Toboe talking not us.

3- This WILL NOT be a Hige/Toboe fic. They're siblings.

DFF: It's not as much of a cliffy as the last chap, but still is.

DIF: This is where we say thank you for reviewing. So thank you for reviewing

Kizune-

DFF: We're not against yaoi, but how did you know?

DIF: You 2 aren't against yaoi, I am.

Randa: We felt like making Toboe a girl. I mean he'd be more boyish as a girl than a boy.

DIF: Thanks most people say it's confusing at first.

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ALL: Thanks here's the next chap though it hasn't been beta read yet.

Randa: I just posted this because I'm going to camp this week.

Editor: Contrary to the above this has now been edited.

D.C Talk-

ALL: We're all pretty big fans of your work though we don't review. TEE HEE.

DIF: Though Kiba and Tsume will most likely come in arouns the 5th chap cause we don't want to rush any thing.

DFF: We've got chap three written out but It still needs a lot of work.

Randa: Please keep reading this it really gives Fire a boost to his confidence. Ta

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DIF: I think you hurt Fire's feelings. TTFN